caerula's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barnacle, the Powerpuff Pirate When I got to work this morning, I nearly fell on the floor of my cubicle laughing. I left early yesterday to meet with our Lovely Lawyer Lady with BB, and there was some sabotage that went on when I was gone. The little figure of Buttercup that I have on top of my monitor now has a black patch over one of her enormous eyes, secured by a rubber band. There's a sign next to her that says "Barnacle, the Powerpuff Pirate." I love working here. The lawyer meeting went fairly well. She is careful to tell us that she does not think sole custody is a shoo-in, but that she is cautiously optimistic. And after reading through the transcripts of all the depositions yesterday, I just can't imagine that anyone could read those and think the best place for YoungBlue is with his maternal grandparents. For one thing, they can't even speak in coherent sentences. The deps are full of "ums" and pauses and statements that make absolutely no sense. Here's a quote from D#1, after Lovely Lawyer Lady asked him if he resented my presence in YB's life: "Restate that question over again a different way." How redundant can you be, that's what I want to know. Of course, this is also the man who told us we had no capability of running a lifehood or a familyhood in our home. Really. Yes, that's where all the "hood" stuff came from. Once the Evil Triplets got a hold of that one, they ran with it. At least I can laugh about it now. The Dementors constantly contradict themselves. They can't articulate a reason why BB should not have full custody, they just don't think he should. He wasn't there for YB. LLL:"Well, do you think that was because you wouldn't allow BB to see YB for the first two years of his life?" D#2 "That was because he wasn't there when YB was born." LLL: "Do you think if your daughter had told him she was pregnant he might have been there?" #2: "I can't answer that, because that didn't happen." LLL:"Do you think it's fair to blame BB for not being a full-time parent when you were the ones preventing that from happening?" #2:"I don't understand the question." Etc, etc. And D#3, YB's mom, we discovered, is living in a 3 bedroom trailer with her boyfriend and her 3 younger children. Her divorce from her child-molesting husband isn't final yet. Her 4 year old son is out of control, "biting, kicking, slapping, hurting me and his siblings," and may be bipolar. The 3 kids are in counseling. Her BF owns the trailer, and the car she drives. His uncle owns the land his trailer is on. She doesn't work because she has arthritis in her knees, which is a direct result of serious obesity, so she gets SSI and ADC. She can't pay BB any child support because of this, and seems almost proud of it. She left YB with her parents when he was a baby because she couldn't handle the responsibility, and has been in and out of his life ever since. She has the gall to say that BB hasn't earned the right to be YB's dad. And she thinks she should get more visitation with YB, that he should live with her some of the time. The thought leaves me speechelss with horror, with anger, and with complete amazement, that she can look at herself and her life and then judge us. 7:45 a.m. - 2001-06-14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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